The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.

A squirrel clings to the back of Brian Genest at John Chestnut Park near Tampa, Fla. Genest, 17, of Auburn, Maine, said the flash and noises from his camera phone scared the animal, which climbed under the teen’s shirt and hung onto his back. “He was just in that spot where my arm can’t reach him,” Genest said. “I threw myself on the ground and that scared him off.” (AP Photo/Paula Wright)

A squirrel approaches Brian Genest as he takes a photo of himself at John Chestnut Park near Tampa, Fla. Genest, 17, of Auburn, Maine, said Thursday, May 1, 2014, he saw what appeared to be a friendly squirrel on a hand rail while walking through a park. Genest took a selfie of himself and the squirrel. But the flash and noises from his camera phone scared the squirrel, which climbed under his shirt and hung onto his back before scampering back out. “He was just in that spot where my arm can’t reach him,” Genest said. “I threw myself on the ground, and that scared him off.” (AP Photo/Brian Genest)

A trainer coaxes two black bears to box at an animal park during an event dubbed as the animal olympic games in Chongqing on May 1, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)

Young visitors walk past the jaws of a sperm whale during the ‘Whales: Giants of the Deep’ exhibition at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 1 2014. (EPA/ERIK S. LESSER )

Visitors take in the opening day of the Glacier Skywalk near the Columbia Icefields on Thursday May 1, 2014.(Gavin Young/Calgary Herald)

Visitors take in the opening day of the Glacier Skywalk near the Columbia Icefields on Thursday May 1, 2014.(Gavin Young/Calgary Herald)

Hungarian pilot and European champion Zoltan Veres flies under the oldest Hungarian bridge, the ‘Lanchid’ (Chain Bridge) with his ‘MXS’ type plane on May 1, 2014 during a Red Bull flying and car show around the Danube River of Budapest downtown. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

Construction workers install waterproofing material during construction inside the cavern of the Second Avenue subway tunnel at 86th Street, Thursday May 1, 2014 in New York. The $4.45 billion project to extend the Q line up and down Second Avenue in Manhattan is expected to be ready for riders by the end of 2016. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

A Syrian woman walks past the burning wreckage of a car following reported air strikes by government forces on May 1, 2014 in the Halak neighbourhood in northeastern Aleppo. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 33 civilians were killed in the attack. (KHALED KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

A man performs a flip on Ipanema Beach on May 1, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 2014 FIFA World Cup starts in Brazil on June 12. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Riot police clash with demonstrators during a march in Turin, northern Italy, 01 May 2014 to mark International Labour Day.(EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MARCO)

Turkish protestors clash with riot police as police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse protestors during a rally for May day in Istanbul, Turkey, 01 May 2014. Police in Istanbul were on 01 May using water cannon and firing tear gas at protesters attempting to reach the city’s Taksim Square, local media reported, where the May Day rallies have been banned. (EPA/SEDAT SUNA)

Turkish protestors clash with riot police as police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse protestors during a rally for May day in Istanbul, Turkey, 01 May 2014. (EPA/TOLGA BOZOGLU)

A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holds a placard reading “Holland betrays the people” during a May Day rally on May 1, 2014 in Paris. (THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkish protestors clash with riot police as police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse protestors during a rally for May day in Istanbul, Turkey, 01 May 2014. Police in Istanbul were on 01 May using water cannon and firing tear gas at protesters attempting to reach the city’s Taksim Square, local media reported, where the May Day rallies have been banned. (EPA/TOLGA BOZOGLU)

Spanish Civil Guard policemen spray fire extinguisher at immigrants that climbed onto the fence at the border between Morroco and Melilla in another mass attempt of crossing into the Spanish enclave in northern Africa, on 01 May 2014. (EPA/PACO GUERRERO)

Would-be immigrants stand atop a boarder fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla on May 1, 2014, following a morning assault on the boarder in an attempt to cross into Spain. . (BLASCO DE AVELLANEDA/AFP/Getty Images)

A sub-Saharan migrant agues with a Spanish Guardia Civil officer holding a baton, as they sit on top of a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Thursday, May 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Garcia)

An Indian fisherman casts his net into the Mohanadi River near Munduli some 30 kms away from Bhubaneswar on May 1, 2014. (ASIT KUMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

A woman puts a yellow ribbon with others at a memorial for victims of the ‘Sewol’ ferry disaster in Seoul on May 1, 2014. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)

A woman shows her identity card next to another protestor as riot police uses water cannons during clashes after hundreds of people tried to reach the city’s main Kizilay Square to celebrate May Day in Ankara on May 1, 2014. (ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Filipino protesters burn an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III , accused of being a ‘robot of US government’ during a protest to mark Labor day near the gates of Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, 01 May 2014. (EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN)

Paco Fiallo, 39 years old, looks at the camera of a photographer as he earns a living on the street with his face painted as a clown during May Day, in Pamplona northern Spain, Thursday, May 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Protesters stand as riot police use water cannons and teargas to disperse thousands of people trying to reach the city’s main Taksim Square to celebrate May Day in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, May 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Pro-Russian activists storm the prosecutors office on May 1, 2014 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Activists marched to the prosecutors office and overran the police guarding the building. After taking control of the building and confiscated the police riot gear, police officers were set free. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Turkish protesters take cover behind trash containers as riot police fire tear gas to disperse a May Day rally near Taksim Square in Istanbul on May 1, 2014.. (GURCAN OZTURK/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkish protesters wearing gas masks use slingshots during clashes with riot police who prevent them from reaching Taksim Square in Istanbul for a May Day rally on May 1, 2014. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)

A statue of Saint Domenico covered with live snakes is carried by the faithful during an annual procession in the streets of Cocullo, in the Abruzzo region, on May 1, 2014. (FABITIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images)

Kenyan blacksmiths work at their workshop in a local market in Nairobi, Kenya, 01 May 2014. Labour Day, also known as International Worker’s Day or May Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from efforts of the labor union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. (EPA/DANIEL IRUNGU)

A Pakistani worker takes a moment’s break at a steel mill in an industrial area of Lahore on April 30, 2014 the eve of International Labour Day. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

Members of a music band wear traditional Bavarian dresses as they pose for a group picture on May 1, 2014 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany. (KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Traditionally dressed dancers perform during the May Day celebrations in Lofer in the Austrian province of Salzburg, on Thursday, May 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

A woman looks on as men in traditional Bavarian dress erect a maypole on May 1, 2014 in Grossweil near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany. (JOSEF HILDENBRAND/AFP/Getty Images)

People walk with flags and balloons on Red Square during a rally in Moscow, Russia, 01 May 2014. Labour Day, also known as International Workers’ Day or May Day, is observed worldwide on 01 May. (EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV)

Balloons at the start of the 15th International Mountain Balloon Race in Krosno, southern Poland, 01 May 2014. The Krosno International Mountain Balloon Competition will see almost 40 teams from Poland, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia compete.( EPA/DAREK DELMANOWICZ)